Muslim Youth Group Sponsors 'Stop The CrISIS' Seminar

ROCHESTER HILLS, MI – Citing recent polls that show about half of likely voters in the upcoming Michigan Republican presidential primary election favor banning Muslims from entering the United States, a Muslim youth group is sponsoring an awareness seminar this week in Rochester Hills.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Metro Detroit is holding its second annual “Stop The CrISIS Seminar” from 6:30-8:30p.m. Wednesday, March 2, in the multipurpose room of the Rochester Hills Public Library, 500 Olde Towne Road.

In a statement, the group Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association cited Pew Research Group findings that 60 percent of Americans do not know a single Muslim. The seminar responds to “growing concern of youth radicalization, religious extremism and the current climate of Islamophobia.”

About 50 people attended last year’s Stop the CrISIS seminar, the first such event by the Metro Detroit chapter, one of about 70 chapters of the national organization for young Muslim men and boys.

The public is invited to attend the seminar, which is free.

The event will be held a day before the Republican presidential primary debate in Detroit on Thursday, March 3.

A Detroit News-WDIV-TV poll earlier this month showed that about 51 percent of likely GOP primary voters would support a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump proposed the ban in early December after ISIS sympathizers Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, CA.